By Byron Kaye SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia’s government carved out an exemption for YouTube when it passed laws banning social media access for children under 16, but some mental health and extremism experts say the video-sharing website exposes them to addictive and harmful content. Australia will block video-sharing platforms TikTok and Snapchat, Meta-owned Instagram and…
Topline Tesla chief Elon Musk spatted with Twitch streamer Zach Hoyt on Thursday, criticizing him after the content creator questioned Musk’s purported position as a top ranked player in the action role-playing video game “Path of Exile 2,” marking the latest instance of public scrutiny around the tech billionaire’s gaming prowess. Musk considers gaming as…
The deafening silence indicates that there’s no repeat performance on the horizon. On December 16, 2016, Martin Sheen and Debra Messing led an army of fellow celebrities in urging Republican electors not to cast their vote for Donald Trump. The bombastic real estate mogul—who had crashed onto the political scene—had won the election. His shock…
EMILY Calandrelli could barely contain her delight about what was to come. The YouTube host and Netflix show star, known on social media as Space Gal, sat down with The U.S Sun at MIT, her alma mata, to talk about her forthcoming November 22 trip to space aboard one of Amazon owner Jeff Bezos’ rockets….
Donald Trump is back. With him comes renewed vows to take on China and reclaim America’s position atop the global word order. And he’s vowing to pick up where he left off on his trade war with China. In this week’s podcast, Rebecca Jones asks Bloomberg senior editor Malcolm Scott about the big implications that…
To more than 27,000 people who subscribe to his YouTube channel, Hongkonger Mike Chow Yik-wai’s life appears to be a fun mix of eating delicious food, getting the latest anime merchandise and travelling. Behind the scenes, Chow, 32, makes a considerable effort to juggle his time between different jobs, describing himself as a “vlogger/drum instructor/freelance…
Search engine giant Google has been fined approximately two undecillion rubles or $2.5 decillion by a court for refusing to restore the accounts of pro-Kremlin and state-run media outlets, according to a report in The Moscow Times, citing RBC news website. The bizarre amount, which exceeds the World Bank’s estimate of global GDP ($100 trillion)…
Photo: Intelligencer; Photo: Getty Images For a good long time, if you wanted to watch a major news event unfold online, your best bet was probably Twitter. It offered a flawed and partial view of what was going on during, say, a major hurricane, when official warnings and on-the-ground reports from professionals and amateurs had…
Juno, a widely praised (unofficial) YouTube app for Vision Pro, has been removed from Apple’s App Store after complaints from Google, according to from Juno’s developer Christian Selig. Google, Selig says, suggested that his app violates their trademark. It’s the latest setback for Selig, who shut down his popular Apollo last year after the company…
Thousands of songs and music videos by hundreds of artists have vanished from YouTube after the video site failed to reach a new agreement with publishing rights organization SESAC. Artists like Adele, Kendrick Lamar, Bob Dylan, Nirvana, Mariah Carey, Green Day and hundreds more were impacted by the impasse created as SESAC’s deal with YouTube…